Claim of bankruptcy forces steel strike

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The challenge facing U.S. antiwar movement. See pp. 6-7 July 18, attempted to implicate the Nicaraguan government in the June killings of six U.S. citizens by Salvadoran revolutionaries. During the past few years, corporaThe statement also charged that the tions have forced extensive contract Sandinistas are helping to prepare ter- concessions upon millions of working rorist attacks against U.S. personnel in people. Top union leaders have done Honduras and warned—while avoiding nothing to stop the bosses from digging details-that the United States will deeper and deeper into the workers' "react accordingly" if the attacks take place.

The U.S. government timed its threats to coincide with celebrations of the sixth anniversary of the Nicaraguan revolution. On July 19 Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega ridiculed the U.S. charges while addressing a half-million people from all over the country at a rally in Managua.

"Who blew up the oil tanks in Corinto?" Ortega asked the crowd. "Who (continued on page 14) pockets.

An international officer from the United Steelworkers of America (USWA) summed up the smug complacency of these bureaucrats when he defended the 1980 concession-laden Basic Steel Agreement by saying that "we probably could have gotten more,

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THE ADMINISTRATION OUTLINED ITS POSITION ON ABORTION TODAY AND FOR THAT REASON, IT WAS PROBABLY BETTER LEFT TO A WOMAN AND HER... A SPOKESMAN SAID THAT THE ISSUE INVOLVED A HIGHLY PERSONAL DECISION...

NGRESSMAN condition in which it was before that case (Roe vs. Wade] was decided."

By "states' rights" the attorney general means laws such as those passed in Pennsylvania and Illinois that restricted access to abortion. Federal courts have declared these laws to be unconstitutional and in violation of the Roe vs. Wade decision.

After repeated attempts by rightwing "pro-lifers" to negate and repeal the right of women "to choose, the Reagan administration has now decided to ask for the whole hog-to simply remove this right from the lawbooks. Reagan and his marauding "pro-lifers" do not let a little thing like the Constitution of the United States stand in the way of their narrow view of what is right and wrong.

Love the fetus; hate children One would think that given their zeal for saving the fetus, the "pro-lifers" would also be tireless in their efforts to aid children who are out of the womb and living in the world of poverty. On the contrary, anti-abortion legislators also to be punished.

The "pro-lifers" know that if they get their way, women would be forced back to the bloodbath of illegal abortions. They know that only safe abortions would end.

The economic facts of life require women to make their own decisions about having children and when they can afford to have them.

Black robes

Women of this nation are now glued to the news media to see if nine old men in black robes (I include Sandra Day O'Connor among them) will continue to allow women their constitutional rights.

Reagan, another rich and evil old man, lay in his hospital bed, enjoying the best medical care money can buy. His right to live is well protected as he demands that the Supreme Court take away a woman's right to choose... and live!

For the first time in the history of this country a president is trying to take away a constitutional right because he doesn't like it. This is a serious test by